Upon2020 (archive)
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REST – Finally, one explanation that makes sense to me
REST (for REpresentational State Transfer) is one of those acronyms that is thrown around in tech circles fairly often these days. I suspect, people bring it up as an antidote to SOAP and WS-* that are growing ever more complex, just like the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP) stack is somewhat of a rebellion…
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Just found my picture on the PC Forum site
Right here as one of the speakers at PC Forum 2005. Thanks Esther and Rafe!
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PCForum: I’ll be a speaker
Today I received confirmation that I will be one of the speakers at Esther Dyson‘s PCForum 2005, which is probably the oldest and one of the most influential technology conferences there is. It’s going to be a quite distinguished roster of speakers, but I don’t want to talk about it here as Esther has not…
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Using International Characters as Part of an Identity Attack
This is a "great" one. Apparently, there are so many Unicode characters that look just other Unicode characters but have a different code. Tailor-made for an identity attack. Try it out at this spoof Paypal site, it’s indistinguisable from the original! A great illustration of why Kim’s 6th Law is an important idea, but extremely…
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BBB: Identity Theft Worse Off-line Than On-Line
Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy & Research have released a study that indicates …that despite growing fears about identity theft and online fraud, of the victims that know the identity and method used by the criminal, these crimes are more frequently committed offline than online. Internet-related fraud problems are actually less severe, less costly…